No ... that was the guy "acting" the goat ...Originally Posted by JimO
Smarty pants... since ages ago
No ... that was the guy "acting" the goat ...
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
Shafty Bugger
9500 quakes in 500 days
that is 19 a day
And I thought I had the onset of Parkinson s!!
To be old and wise, first you must be young and stupid.
Embracing mediocrity
This shit is really starting to suck now.
So we've been red zoned, and have until April 2013 to get out. Have found a house we want to buy, and are now trying to sort the paperwork
Finally managed to get the claim on our house finalised and have a letter that seems to be mostly weasel words, so that's off to the lawyer to try and make some sense of what all of that means, to figure out what options we have for settlement.
So ring our insurance company and get told sorry, we're not taking on any new business in chch. Must be nice to be sitting in a comfy warm office somewhere making blanket decisions like that, knowing that it's not going to affect you personally.
Rang the existing insurer for the house and get told they won't transfer the existing insurance it will be a new policy, and if we pay for a builders report they'll have a look at it and *may* offer insurance on the house, but they can't give a definate yes or no. Without insurance obviously we can't get any money from the bank.
End result is we can't buy a house to move to without insurance, but we have to fuck off from where we are now, and at present we're stuck between the two in no mans land.
Fuck.
/rant
Riding cheap crappy old bikes badly since 1987
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dodgy is as dodgy does
That is very, very fucked up.
Don't blame me, I voted Green.
Aio ki te Aorangi
couldn't have put it any better. Bloody sorry to hear that neels.
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
Una Storia Italiana
Neil... work on them, worked for us as you know one minute we had insurance next we didnt then we did who knows if we will at the end of the build, as we changed banks I dont know if we will still get the ins with the other bank, I give up its all to hard but alas ya have to battle on.
Ya got no idea how farking relieved Ill be when we get right out of this shit hole that chch has become. Every were ya seem to go theres attudes road rage and no one gives a shit any more, Ive said it to you before and Ill say it again... piss off 30mins out of it, you like me dont have to go into town to work, and schools aint that hard to sort.
cheers DD
(Definately Dodgy)
Born to be mild
Don from Pit Lane now out at Darfield would agree. Seems very happy out there even though it's a bit quieter. Still seem to plenty of bikers making the trek out there though.
Grow older but never grow up
Una Storia Italiana
Yip, they are at the end of the road we are on, he wont be back, awesom spot hes got altho our build is ahead of theres hehe.
cheers DD
(Definately Dodgy)
Royal Enfield user
and there is no way you can tell that red sticker to go and f itself, this is my home and I ain't moving?This shit is really starting to suck now.
So we've been red zoned, and have until April 2013 to get out. Have found a house we want to buy, and are now trying to sort the paperwork
Finally managed to get the claim on our house finalised and have a letter that seems to be mostly weasel words, so that's off to the lawyer to try and make some sense of what all of that means, to figure out what options we have for settlement.
So ring our insurance company and get told sorry, we're not taking on any new business in chch. Must be nice to be sitting in a comfy warm office somewhere making blanket decisions like that, knowing that it's not going to affect you personally.
Rang the existing insurer for the house and get told they won't transfer the existing insurance it will be a new policy, and if we pay for a builders report they'll have a look at it and *may* offer insurance on the house, but they can't give a definate yes or no. Without insurance obviously we can't get any money from the bank.
End result is we can't buy a house to move to without insurance, but we have to fuck off from where we are now, and at present we're stuck between the two in no mans land.
Fuck.
/rant
that would be my feeling ..... I'm thinking of that film the castle ....
good luck hope it pans out
stephen
Embracing mediocrity
Yes, yes it is.
Pretty much. Don't have a choice as we have to go somewhere, just sick of all the bullshit and want to move on, but solve one problem and another one turns up. Just as well work don't mind me spending half my day on the phone trying to sort shit out.
Um, nope. CERA legislation lets them compulsoraly acquire your land for it's current market value (which at the moment is 2/5 of fuck all), and tell you to piss off. So selling it to them is a better option than getting fuck all and being told to move anyway.
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Just faidin away!
From the outside looking in it appears that Christchurch society is finally imploding in on it's self!
That will be harder to put back together than the physical part of the city!
All the King's horses and all the kings men couldn't put Christchurch (Humpty Dumpty) together again! .... Sad thing to watch really!
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the question arises , why ... ?From the outside looking in it appears that Christchurch society is finally imploding in on it's self!
That will be harder to put back together than the physical part of the city!
All the King's horses and all the kings men couldn't put Christchurch (Humpty Dumpty) together again! .... Sad thing to watch really!
is it? if it is , are the bonds that hold a community together broken if so why? economic? generational ?
and what lessons can we learn
it will be interesting as an outsider , being there in March , I will be paying attention and will report back first impressions
Stephen
after delivering donuts of course
"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
In the riders seat
What makes you think that?
I'll be interested in those impressions especially as you're coming from somewhere that suffered a natural disaster on a far larger scale and can you deliver me a coke as well?
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
on the up
I've been in Christchurch all week and I'm back there week after next. I wouldn't necessarily say that. Yes, it's true that Christchurch people have had to handle the jandal, because there really wasn't any choice, but, other than a quiet annoyance (and about 4000 who weren't quiet) with the bureaucracy, there's a quite resilience about the population that I really admire.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
Just faidin away!
News paper reports, TV news, radio, media reports in general, coupled with personal comments from relatives and friends!
There seems to be a deep rooted level of dissatisfaction building up and there is nowhere else to vent it but onto those controlling the rebuild.
Add to that the ambitions of the negative splinter groups stirring away and you have an explosive mix just waiting to be set alight.
This has been pretty tough for Christchurch society in general to endure and there seems to be very little light at the end of tunnel sometimes.
Like it says on the fireworks that you buy ... "light blue touch paper, do not hold in the hand"!
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